www.AntarcticGuide.com Southern exposure Review by Ranulph Fiennes Lost images give fresh insight into Captain Scott’s final journey and serve as witnesses for the defence of his reputation The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott, by Dr David M Wilson, Little, Brown, RRP£30, 192 pages http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/07448d72-2741-11e1-864f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1hRzDqjtz Antarctic Guide info@antarcticguide.com www.AntarcticGuide.com Twitter: AntarcticGuide

www.AntarcticGuide.com Priest has rite stuff for parish with divine view Leesha Mckenny December 24, 2011 MONSIGNOR Stephen Rossetti will conduct midnight Mass tonight with his sunglasses on. The glasses come with the territory. Monsignor Rossetti is the lone Catholic priest in Antarctica – surely one of the world’s largest parishes. ”Antarctica is unique. It’s like […]

Exploring the Dry Valleys, Then and Now By ALIA KHAN Alia Khan, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, writes from the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, where she is studying ephemeral glacier-fed streams. It’s interesting to think how different our experiences in the Dry Valleys are from those of the first Antarctic […]

How nuclear icebreakers work – and the reversible ships that will replace them The Arctic North end of Russia is believed to hold as much as a quarter of all the world’s oil deposits – an utterly monstrous economic prize, hidden in one of the toughest and least hospitable environments on the planet. Getting to […]

To see how the papers were reporting the diplomatic war between the UK and Chile in 1948 have a look at http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4oJvMfeQlr8C&dat=19480218&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Antarctic Guide info@antarcticguide.com www.AntarcticGuide.com Twitter: AntarcticGuide

Giant Dinosaur Fossil Found in Antarctica A vertebrae found on James Ross Island could belong to the biggest animal to ever roam Antarctica. Argentinian paleontologists have discovered a vertebrae fossil belonging to massive titanosaur – in frickin’ Antarctica. The discovery is believed to be the largest ever dinosaur found on the planet’s most remote continent, […]

Scott’s letter to financier Edgar Speyer, who had helped raised funds for the trip, was found on his body in November 1912. It had been written on March 1912. In the letter Scott writes: “I fear we must go…but we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen – I regret only […]

Douglas Mawson centenary trip to Antarctica frozen as cold reality sets in • BY:MATTHEW DENHOLM, ANTARCTICA • From:The Australian • December 21, 2011 12:00AM ONE hundred years after Douglas Mawson’s first Australian-led Antarctic expedition was almost defeated by thick pack ice, the same problem has stumped those seeking to follow in his wake. Unusually dense […]

South Pole parties mixed pride, PR December 14, 2011 Norwegian officials made the most of the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen’s arrival at the South Pole on Wednesday, with the king, the crown prince and the prime minister strategically placed to hail December 14, 1911 as “a proud day for Norway.” The celebrations reflected pride […]

Falklands’ fishing companies regret Uruguay’s ban, and losses for the port of Montevideo Falkland Islands fishing companies association, FIFCA expressed their “extreme disappointment” with Uruguay’s decision not to allow Falklands’ flagged vessels enter the port of Montevideo, which “will only serve to punish its own people”. In a brief release signed by Cheryl Roberts, FIFCA […]